General Chat

Yeah, it probably is possible - if not probable - that alien beings :

A) Exist

B) Are able to harness a mode of travel unkown to current science

C) Are interested enough in the human race to swoop and pirouette around the sky in gravity defying manouevers just to show off to us

D) Despite being so incredibly advanced, only manage to abduct truck drivers from Arkansas with the IQ of a garden fork

E) Are able to telepathically communicate with chosen ones (who have the IQ of a garden fork)

F) etc.

:-)

Actually many of the norsk Gods were pretty nice even the pigs they ate came back to life next day.
Like much else toughened up by a few spin doctors in the first half of the 20 th century
I like Arran jumpers too specially in the winter when temps go below minus ten c

I think the mobile phone thing requires a leap of faith - my first mobile needed a rucksack to carry it round, lol - I think they have evolved the same as the house telephone.

Computers existed since the 1940's - but not recogniseable as we know them today really. The silicon chip revolution continues to advance every day.

But I do think there will be massive innovation in the future - I like to envisage peronal transportation in some form of mini cold fusion driven car type thing, tourism to Mars and maybe beyond, space travel approaching the speed of light - imagination is all that is needed :-)

Yeah, I think the law of averages or odds says that somewhere there must be a planet orbiting round a star the same size as the sun, with a similar mixture of gases and building blocks of life....perhaps that planet spawned life many millions of years before us and 'seeded' other planets? Who knows?

What is life? By life do we mean consciousness and form in our image? Why not a silicon based monopod life form as opposed to our carbon based bipod lifeform?

Computors the first computor punch cards ( a device once used to feed information into a computor) were in fact a copy in smaller form of the cards used to steer weaving frames. A seventies and eighties job was a punch card operator.
And programes, most knitting patterns are in fact basic( not the computor language) programmes.
We have simply adapted previously know ideas to new uses.
The need to make better and smaller cryptographic apparatus, along with spy techniques to make micro dot filming have made micro chips possible though doudt wether either would at first see their connection.

Terry

Punch cards were in use in the 60's. I worked at Sperry Univac!

I led the small team which coded, hand punched and verified an awful lot of the 1981 England census.

The first Fastrand was developed from a sewer pipe.

I am full of bits of useless info about computers!

Can you imagine trying to explain the concept of a ball point pen to the guys who wrote the dead sea scrolls....?

Or mobile phones, cars, space travel or the internet?

Once read a aSci fi story about a war in space that had come to a stalemate, hundreds of years everything being checkmated by the each side.
Then a youngster noticed that you could 4+3 and get 7 without using a calculator.
He quickly began doing the sums needed for the next battle and lo because he'd made a couple of mistakes; they won.
Logic that said they should have done something didn't work out because they hadn't.
Talking about Star Wars the logical people with the pointy ears would have been killed off because we need a degree of illogic to cope with the unexpected and illogical

Wrote this once before I must confess! Did read that the universe is construct that is constantly expanding but only has internal dimensions, so I guess we the universe could be even smaller than a speck on anothers leg.

If we met an alien life form would we know it was ! alife form
2 from outer space?